Impossible Flight of Machines Heavier than Air“Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.” predicted by Simon Newcomb. The prediction turned false when The Wright Brothers flew at Kitty hawk 18 months later.

Heavier than Air Flying Machines In 1985 Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society gave his statement: “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible”

Communication Space SatellitesT. Craven, FCC Commissioner in 1961 stated that: “There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States.”

Automobile will Never Replace Horse In 1903, the president of Michigan Savings Bank advised Henry Ford’s lawyer not to invest in Ford Motor Co. According to him, “The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty – a fad”.

Nuclear Energy will not be Obtainable In 1932, Albert Einstein stated that “There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will”

Rockets will never leave Earth’s atmosphere n 1936, New York Times predicted that “A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth’s atmosphere.”

Television won’t Capture any Market In 1946, Twentieth Century-Fox-eieren, Darryl Zanuck predicted that: “Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night”

Communication Space Satellites T. Craven, FCC Commissioner in 1961 stated that: “There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States.”

32-bit Operating System The prediction “We will never make a 32 bit operating system” was made by Bill Gates, the CEO of Microsoft corporation,

Computers in Home President, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), passed this statement about personal computers in 1977: “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”

Market for Copying Machines IBM passed a statement to the eventual founders of Xerox, in 1959, that: “The world potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most.”, adding that: "the photocopier had no market large enough to justify production".

X-rays will be nothing but a Hoax In 1883, the president of Royal Society Mr Lord Kevin stated that: “X-rays will prove to be a hoax”.

Electric Light will have no future Oxford professor Erasmus Wilson predicted that: “When the Paris Exhibition [of 1878] closes, electric light will close with it and no more will be heard of it”.

“If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this.” — Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M “Post-It” Notepads.

World market for computers: “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” — Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

High speed rail is not possible“Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.” - Dr Dionysys Larder (1793-1859)

Science Debunked Meteorites 'Age of Reason' and 'The Enlightenment', roughly within the 18th century, were terms used and cherished by those who believed in the power of mind to liberate and improve. Reviewing the experience in 1784, Immanuel Kant saw emancipation from superstition and ignorance as having been the essential characteristic of these times. Philosophers and scientists alike pursued these ideals with enthusiasm and vigour and especially so the Académie Française des Sciences, Europe's leading rational authority. To them may be attributed a strange anomaly that exists in the world today - in museums and collections there is scarcely a single specimen of meteorite that predates the year 1790.

The idea that stones can fall out of the sky was scornfully denounced by the Académie as an unscientific absurdity. Antoine Lavoisier, for example, the father of modern chemistry, told his fellow Academicians, "Stones cannot fall from the sky, because there are no stones in the sky!" The concept of meteorites was thus condemned as nothing but medieval illusions and old wives' tales. Embarrassed museums all over Europe, wishing to be seen to be part of this enlightened 'Age of Reason', hurriedly threw out their cherished meteorite collections with the garbage as humiliating anachronisms from a superstitious past.

Although the last two decades of the eighteenth century saw scientists such as Peter Pallas and Ernst Florens Chladni, risking ridicule by the scientific community through the serious investigation of meteorites, most scientists shared Isaac Newton's view that that no small objects could exist in the interplanetary space. An assumption that left no room for rocks or stones falling from the sky.

In this study of science, Richard Milton shows that today, there are mountains of experimental data which is being ignored and rejected by orthodox science: subjects as controversial as cold fusion; psychokinesis; ESP; alternative medicine and many others. In this exploration of anomalous research, Milton addresses the forbidden question: is there something fundamentally wrong with the way science is currently practised?

The article below was first commissioned and later censored by the Times Higher Education Supplement. (The circumstances under which it came to be censored, following the intervention of Dr Richard Dawkins, are described in the pages on Scientific Censorship).

Compelling evidence that the most important assumptions on which Darwinism rests are wrong. The controversial best-seller that sent Oxford University and Nature magazine into a frenzy. SHATTERING THE MYTHS OF DARWINISM exposes the gaping holes in an ideology that has reigned unchallenged over the scientific world for a century. Darwinism is considered to be hard fact, the only acceptable explanation for the formation of life on Earth, but with keen insight and objectivity Richard Milton reveals that the theory totters atop a shambles of outdated and circumstantial evidence which in any less controversial field would have been questioned long ago. Sticking to the facts at hand and tackling a vast array of topics, SHATTERING THE MYTHS OF DARWINISM offers compelling evidence that the theory of evolution has become an act of faith rather than a functioning science and that not until the scientific method is applied to it and the right questions are asked will we ever get the true answers to the mystery of life on Earth.

Alternative Science:
Challenging the Myths of the Scientific Establishment

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In this compelling tour through the world of anomalous research, Richard Milton makes clear what the scientific establishment takes pains to deny: plenty of hard experimental evidence already exists for such things as cold fusion, paranormal phenomena, bioenergy and the effectiveness of alternative medicine. Because these subjects and those who dare to investigate them are continually denied legitimacy by what can only be called the "paradigm police," the public is led to believe that all claims made about such topics are completely groundless. With humour and an eye for the telling detail, the author describes many instances when the defenders of scientific orthodoxy acted with unscientific rigidity in the face of the evidence. Faraday, Roentgen, Edison and even the Wright Brothers were thought to be charlatans by their contemporaries. Taking the broad view of the way science is done, Milton discusses the forces at work in the marginalisation of unorthodox research and makes the reader wonder if there is not something fundamentally wrong with the way that science is currently being practiced

WHY SEEK WISDOM FROM PRIMITIVE PEOPLES
Some of the primitive races have avoided certain of the life problems faced by modernized groups and the methods and knowledge used by the primitive peoples are available to assist modernized individuals in solving their problems. Many primitive races have made habitual use of certain preventive measures in meeting crucial life problems. Search for controls among remnants of primitive racial stocks has been resorted to as a result of failure to find them in our modernized groups or to find the controlling factors by applying laboratory methods to the affected clinical material. Only the primitive groups have been able to provide adequate normal controls.

In the following chapters, I have presented descriptions of certain peoples and their environments in primitive state, and, for comparative study, descriptions of members of the primitive tribes who have been in contact with modernized white races. I have recorded the effects of that contact as expressed in physical and character changes, and have given a survey of the factors in the environment which have changed. It has been necessary to study in this way a wide variety of primitive groups and physical environments. It will, accordingly, be advisable for the reader to keep in mind the comparative effects of different altitudes, latitudes, temperatures and races, and to note the similarity of the reac-tions of these primitive groups when contact is made with our modern civilization. The purpose is to glean data that will be applicable for use in correcting certain tragic expressions of our modern degeneration, including tooth decay, general physical degeneration, and facial and dental-arch deformities, and character changes. These data will be useful in preventing race decay and deformities, in establishing a higher re-sistance to infective diseases, and in reducing the number of prenatal deficiency injuries. These latter include such expressions as mental de-ficiencies caused by brain defects in the formative period, which result in mental disturbances ranging from moderate backwardness to character abnormalities.
The data presented show the level of susceptibility to dental caries (tooth decay) in each isolated primitive group and, contrasted with that

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I have presented descriptions of certain peoples and their environments in primitive state, and, for comparative study, descriptions of members of the primitive tribes who have been in contact with modernized white races. I have recorded the effects of that contact as expressed in physical and character changes, and have given a survey of the factors in the environment which have changed.

Pottenger's Cats is a classic in the science of nutrition. Dr. Pottenger discovered quite by accident that cats degenerated unless they were fed raw food. In his 10-year study of 900 cats, he found the optimal diet for his cats was 2/3 raw meat and 1/3 raw milk plus a little cod liver oil. If either the meat or the milk was cooked, the cats degenerated. And if both were cooked, the degeneration was much worse, and the cats could no longer reproduce by the third generation.

Some of the problems Pottenger found in the cats fed cooked food were: heart problems; nearsightedness and farsightedness; underactivity and inflammation of the thyroid; infections of the kidney, liver, testes, ovaries and bladder; arthritis and inflammation of the joints; inflammation of the nervous system with paralysis and meningitis. And in the third generation, some of the cats' bones became as soft as rubber. Lung problems, and bronchitis and pneumonia were also frequent. Moreover, the females became irritable and even dangerous, and the males became passive and lacked sex interest.

Do many of these conditions sound familiar? Pottenger, of course, realized that his cat studies didn't apply entirely to humans. He believed nonetheless that his findings for cats did have relevance for humans, and in his sanitarium he fed his patients much raw food, with considerable success. Weston A. Price reported in his book, "Nourishing Traditions" that all of the people's he studied worldwide included much raw food in their traditional diets and were almost entirely free of the degenerative diseases that are rampant in our junk food society, such as tooth decay, heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, digestive disturbances,etc.

If you want to stay healthy, you owe it to yourself to read both Pottenger and Price. Their eye opening photographs alone will make clear to you that you need optimum nutrition if you want to be optimally healthy.

(OMNS, October 2, 2008) A new study of 3,299 persons has shown that those with higher levels of vitamin D cut their risk of dying from cancer in half. Another recent study shows that ample intake of vitamin D, about 2,000 IU per day, can cut breast cancer incidence by half. Still more research found that inadequate Vitamin D is "associated with high incidence rates of colorectal cancer" and specifically urges that "prompt public health action is needed to increase intake of Vitamin D-3 to 1000 IU/day."

Vitamin D's anticancer properties are so evident, and so important, that the Canadian Cancer Society now recommends supplementation with 1,000 IU of Vitamin D per day for all adults in winter, and year-round for persons at risk.

The American Cancer Society, however, is dragging its feet, still maintaining that "More research is needed to define the best levels of intake and blood levels of vitamin D for cancer risk reduction."

What is taking them so long?

Researchers in 2006 noted that "The evidence suggests that efforts to improve vitamin D status, for example by vitamin D supplementation, could reduce cancer incidence and mortality at low cost, with few or no adverse effects."

If you search the US National Institutes of Health's Medline online database for "cancer vitamin D," you will find over five thousand papers. . . some dating back nearly 60 years.

It's true: physician reports on vitamin D stopping cancer have been ignored for decades. In 1951, T. Desmonts reported that vitamin D treatment was effective against Hodgkin's disease (a cancer of the lymphatic system). That same year, 57 years ago, massive doses of vitamin D were also observed to improve epithelioma. In 1955, skin cancer was again reported as cured with vitamin D treatment. In 1963, there was a promising investigation done on vitamin D and breast cancer. Then, in 1964, vitamin D was found to be effective against lymph nodal reticulosarcoma, a non-Hodgkin's lymphatic cancer.

The American Cancer Society has been obsessed with finding a drug cure for cancer. Pharmaceutical researchers are not looking for a vitamin cure. And when one is presented, as independent investigators and physicians have continuously been doing since 1951, it is ignored.

A significant number of the vitamins you will find on the pharmacy shelves these days are made synthetically through chemical processes, rather than derived directly from plants or other materials, although some manufacturers still produce natural vitamins. In fact, manufacturers of natural vitamins and some of their adherents claim they are superior to synthetic vitamins. Is there any substance in these claims?

It is rather difficult to make the distinction between "synthetic" and "natural" vitamins. Some define a natural vitamin as a concentrated nutrient derived from a quality natural source. The idea is maximum retention of the natural material; no artificial colors, sweeteners, or preservatives should be used.

A natural source contains co-factors that come with the nutrient in nature. For instance, some co-factors that are usually found with Vitamin C are various bioflavonoids. It is concentrated from its natural source as carefully as possible. No extreme heat, pressure, or possibly toxic solvents are used. There are no sugar or chemical tablet coatings. The nutrients are prepared from high quality raw ingredients. No artificial chemicals are added. Harsh binders and fillers do not hinder absorption.

Synthetic vitamins are made in a laboratory setting from coal tar derivatives. No co-factors are present. Most of the food supplements sold on the market today are synthetic and often cheaper to produce than natural vitamins.
Any additional way to compare natural and synthetic vitamins is to consider the differences in their molecular structures. Is the molecular structure of natural vitamins altered by the synthetic process?

Natural health authorities claim that synthetic vitamins are useless and ineffective. Orthodox doctors and even some nutritionists claim that synthetic vitamins have a molecular chemical structure identical to the natural vitamin and that they are just as effective. Who is right and who is wrong?

It is reasonable to expect the two to function similarly and be bio-available in identical amounts to your body if there is no such alteration. Furthermore, the same natural vitamin derived from different natural sources or raw materials will be the same so long as no other substances unique to that particular source are included.

Vitamin C that is found and isolated from oranges is identical to the vitamin C derived from other plant sources, largely because plants containing vitamin C biosynthesize the substance in the same manner. However, when Vitamin C was first isolated and produced in a supplement form, we did not know about bioflavonoids. They were discovered later. It was found that in nature, bioflavonoids always accompany Vitamin C. In fact, the bioflavonoids are essential for better absorption. They increase bioavailability by 30%. This suggests you should take the natural form of vitamin C.

The counter-argument would be: As with all foods and nutrients, Vitamin C is a chemical. It is also known as ascorbic acid. You can take a bite of an orange and obtain ascorbic acid, or you can produce ascorbic acid from corn in a laboratory. The molecules are identical and perform the exact same function in the human body.

Whole food based vitamin supplements: neither here nor there….
The amazingly complex and varied tapestry of health claims skillfully weaved by the supplement industry seems to defy reason. This is because the majority of the implied health benefits have actually not been validated. At best, the sum of these assertions can only be described as either a hopelessly tangled web of deceptive claims or a meaningless morass of well meaning and unfettered propaganda.

Scattered amongst this maelstrom of mostly vacuous assumptions (because of insufficient scientific support), are points of interest that might reflect, albeit in a hopelessly twisted and contorted way, glimpses of what the real world of scientific inquiry has discovered. For example, nutritional researchers are opening new horizons into the world of functional foods- those foods that impact health in certain ways as compared to others.

The research is literally buzzing with studies evaluating everything from whole food matrices to individual food related components poring over innumerable potential biological actions, effects, or physiological events these substances might produce in human or animal health. They include a broad category of substances such as vitamins and other bioactive compounds that seem to have actions at genetic, epigenetic, and biochemical levels and promise possible new therapeutic modalities.

However, there is still much to be resolved and elucidated and precious little hard dependable data from which to make the monumental claims often heard from supplement advocates. One of the interesting and reliable threads of observational information is the anticlimactic fact that regular food- whole food- has generally beneficial effects on people. In other words; it seems that the best way to maintain ourselves; this “bag” of chemicals we call our body is to have access to a variety of chemicals from the “outside”. To date and to our knowledge, this is best represented as good old food, preferably of the wholesome variety type.
http://wanderingprimate.blogspot.com/2008/01/natural-versus-synthetic-vitamins.html

A common message from the American Heart Association and The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to doctors is that there exist a close correspondence between degree of cholesterol lowering and degree of mortality reduction. Listen for example to the words from The Cholesterol Facts: ”The results of the Framingham study indicate that a 1% reduction of cholesterol corresponds to a 2% reduction in CHD (coronary heart disease) risk.” This statement was followed by a reference to a paper which reported the 30 years experience from Framingham.

But in that paper you can read the following statement:

Sitat:

”For each 1 mg/dl drop of cholesterol there was an 11% increase (!) in coronary and total mortality.”

In 1985 Dr. Miettinen and colleagues from Helsinki, Finland published a small cholesterol-lowering trial . In that trial four patients whose cholesterol was lowered died from a heart attack, whereas only one died in the untreated control group, and the total number of deaths was ten in the treatment group against five in the control group. (mitt utdrag fra en større kontekst/truud2)

The above examples are just the tip of the iceberg. Here is a systematic review of the way the three largest, authoritative reviews have misquoted the literature:

Career Uffe Ravnskov was born in Copenhagen 1934. He was promoted M.D. at the University of Copenhagen 1961. The next 17 years, he worked in Denmark and Sweden as surgeon, radiologist, neurologist, pediatrician, and internist. He was, for example, trained by Gunnar Sebardt (Rondel 2000; 4:Culture) in Skellefteå and Sandviken 1963-68. Then he joined the department of renal medicine (nephrology) in Lund. He defended his theses 1973. He opened private practice 1979. From 1990, he has published about 40 scientific works on blood lipids. He has also published about 20 scientific works on inflammatory kidney diseases. His scientific contributions were rewarded with the Irish Skrabanek Award 1999.His book "The cholesterol myths" (New Trends Publishing, Washington, DC, 2000, www.newtrendspublishing.com) was published a few months ago.

Remote viewing experiments (the respectable modern way of describing second-sight or clairvoyance) by the US intelligence services has been the subject of much speculation but concrete facts have been thin on the ground. Now, a detailed account of one remote viewing experiment, conducted by Drs. Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at Stanford Research Institute in 1974, has been recently declassified and released in sanitised form on the National Security Agency website. (Click Here to view). The report makes interesting reading for several reasons; first because it is so detailed and second because its CIA author judged the experiment to be unsuccessful from a military standpoint. Yet in reality, the experiment was, if anything, too successful for comfort and provoked a panic reaction from the military authorities.

In the experiment, the subject (known only as SG1J but actually Pat Price, a retired police commissioner) was informed of the existence of a top secret Soviet military base at a place called Semipalatinsk "25 to 30 miles south west of the Irtysh River" in Siberia. It is inconceivable that the subject could have had any knowledge of such a secret installation by normal means and he was given only its map coordinates. Not only was it one of the Soviet Union's most secret nuclear weapons centres, but it was also physically very remote, and some 10,000 miles away from the site of the experiments.

Over three days, Price was asked to describe features of the Russian base by paranormal means in a number of remote viewing sessions. In several important respects, the experiment was considered a failure by the military officer tasked with analysing the results. Price failed to draw the perimeter of the site even though he was asked twice. When pressed for details he made remarks like, 'I'll come back to that', but seldom did. And when pressed further for concrete specific facts, he did what many 'psychics' do -- he produced a stream of specific facts that proved to be incorrect. He thought, for example, that the site was connected with the Soviet space programme and 'saw' cosmonauts in space suits when it is in fact a purely military weapons installation.

However, Price made one statement that proved to be astonishingly accurate. He said that he could see a mobile gantry crane built on a huge scale -- its wheels taller than a man. The crane he said was 150 feet tall and its railed tracks 50 feet apart. He also said this crane ran on tracks over an underground building and made a number of detailed sketches, almost of engineering drawing quality. ...mer

Although there is debate over the exact date it started, on November 02, 2000, a person calling themselves Timetravel_0, and later John Titor, started posting on a public forum that he was a time traveler from the year 2036. One of the first things he did was post pictures of his time machine and its operations manual. As the weeks went by, more and more people began questioning him about why he was here, the physics of time travel and his thoughts about our time. He also posted on other forums including the old Art Bell site. In his posts John Titor entertained, angered, frightened and even belittled those who engaged him in conversation. On March 24, 2001, John Titor told us he would be leaving our time and returning to 2036. After that, he was never heard from again. Speculation and investigation about who John Titor was and why he was online continues to this day. Although it may be easy to dismiss all this as science fiction, most people who read his posts agree that there is something very haunting about John Titor and what he said. In addition, and open to more debate, he also made a series of predictions and comments that eerily seem to be coming true. Unfortunately, I never spoke directly to John Titor but there are many out there who have and continue to wonder about their experience. As you get deeper into this site, you will find his posts, links to other sites about him, downloads and speculative information attributed to him after he left. I have taken the posts and organized them by date and subject. My editorial work is copyrighted but the unedited posts and the people who experienced it are in the public domain can be found on other sites listed inside. As you read, please try to keep two things in mind: 1. John appeared to answer nearly every question that was asked of him over the 4-month period he was online. Because of that, many people neglected to read the previous posts and asked similar or exact questions he had already answered. It may offer a glimpse of what a time traveler goes through when having the same conversation again and again. 2. These posts were written before 9-11, the Columbia accident and the second Gulf War. Many people believe John may have known of these events and dropped clues without actually referring to them. It's also widely agreed that he made several predictions about future physics discoveries that have materialized as he stated.